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Accounts of the dancer’s life and career include Victor Seroff, The Real Isadora (1971); Frederika Blair, Isadora: Portrait of the Artist as a Woman (1986); Lillian Loewenthal, The Search for Isadora: The Legend & Legacy of Isadora Duncan (1993); Dorée Duncan, Carol Pratl, and Cynthia Splatt (eds.), Life into Art: Isadora Duncan and Her World (1993); and Ann Daly, Done into Dance: Isadora Duncan in America (1995). Maurice Dumesnil, An Amazing Journey (1932), chronicles Duncan’s South American tour; and Ilya Ilyich Schneider (Il’ia Il’ich Shneider), Isadora Duncan: The Russian Years, trans. from Russian (1968, reprinted 1981), is an account of her years in the Soviet Union during the early 1920s. Studies of her dance philosophy and technique are Isadora Duncan, The Art of Dance, ed. by Sheldon Cheney (1928, reissued 1977); and Irma Duncan, The Technique of Isadora Duncan (1937, reissued 1970). Nadia Chilkovsky Nahumck, Nicholas Nahumck, and Anne M. Moll, Isadora Duncan: The Dances (1994), presents the dance scores for more than 300 of Duncan’s dances.

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